Gearing for bottle-washers.



W. MLBOYLE. GEARING FOR BOTTLE WASHERS. APPLICATION FYILED MAR. 25, 1 916.

904, Patented Sept. 12; 1916.

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W. M. BOYLE.

BEARING FOR BOTTLE WASHERS. APPLICATION FILIED MAR.25. 1916.

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GEARIN G FOR BOTTLE-WASHERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12,1916.

Application filed March 25, 1916. Serial No. 86,672.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. BOYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Platteville, in the county of Grant and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gearing for Bottle- Washers, of which the following is a specification. o

This invention relates to bottle washers and especially to gearing foroperating the brushes which act upon the bottles. I

One object'of the invention is to provide improved means for imparting simultaneous reciprocating anoh; rotary movement to a brush-carrying or other shaft.

Another object is the provision of a pair of brushes, one to act upon the interior. and the other upon the exterior of a bottle, said brushes being adapted to be rotated and one brush, preferably the one arranged inside the bottle, reciprocated as well as rotated. Further objects are to provide simplified means for mounting a pair of such brushes on the edge of a tank in order. that thewashing may be done under water,and to make the brush carrying frame adjus'table to correspond with the level of the water in. the tank.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more particularly described in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bottle washer constructed substan tially in accordance with this invention and attached to the rim of a washing tank. Fig.

2 is a plan View of the bottle washer, the position of a bottle when it is being washed being indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the gears on the two-brush carrying shafts, showing the reciprocating shaft at the inner end of its stroke, Fig. 1 is a similar view showing the reciprocating shaft at the outer end of its stroke, and Fig. 5 is a detailed end view of the intermeshing gears, showing more particularly how the ribs in the serpentine grooves in the gears act upon the faces of the teeth projecting at either side of said grooves to produce the reciprocating movement of one of the shafts.

In Fig. 1, 2 designates a washlng tank movement imparted thereto ing shaft? through a vuniversal coupling 18 adapted to contain water to the level indicated by the dotted line 3, and having the bottle washer frame 4 secured to its rim 5. Said frame has a stationary portion 6 on which is journaled the driving shaft 7 carrying a pair of fast and loose pulleys 8. Another part 9 of the frame is hinged at 10 to the part 6so-that it may be adjusted for varying the position of the brushes accord ing to the level of the water in the tank. The part 9 of the frame has two brush carrying shafts 11 and 12 journaled thereon, and said shafts carry intermeshing gears 13 and 1 1 which are housed in the frame. The brush 15 carried by the shaft 11 is .de signed to be placed inside of the-bottleto be washed, as indicated at 16 in Fig. 2, while the brush 17 on the shaft 12 acts upon the outside of the bottle. As the brushes are submerged, they will always be wet and insure a thorough cleaning of the bottles.

The brush carrying shafts have rotary from the drivconnecting the shaft 12 with said driving shaft 7. In order to'impart a reciprocating as well as a rotary movement to the shaft 11 formore eflectively washing the interior of the bottles, the gears 13 and 11 are provided with serpentine grooves 19 and 20 in which are arranged ribs 21 and 22 extending part way outward from the bases to the ends of the teeth 23 and 24 of said gears, see Figs. 3, 4 and 5. By reason of this construction, it will be seen that the ribs 21 and 22 act upon the projecting outer ends of the teeth 24 and 23, respectively, of the gears 14 and 13, to cause the shaft 11 to reciprocate as it is rotated from one extreme position illustrated in Fig. 3 to the tion shown in Fig. 1. It will be understood, of course, that the shaft 12 and gear 14 carried thereby are retained against axial movement by any suitable means such as the collars 25.

The gears 13 and 141 are of different size, one having more teeth than the other, whereby the bristles of the internal brush 15 will follow a varying serpentine path around the inner surface of the bottle instead of always following the same serpentine path as would be the case if the gears were of the same size and had the same number of teeth. Thus by providing one gear with more teeth than the other, an ideal motion for bottle washing is obtained, each bristle of the inother extreme posi-.

ternal brush being given a wider path of action than would be possible if both gears had the same numberiof teeth.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is parting a reoiprocatory and rotary move ment to one shaft when the other shaft is rotated."

of intermeshinggears carried by said shafts and ti' i'aving serpentine grooves in their toothed peripheries, and ribs arranged in said grooves and terminating intermediate oftli'e bases and outer-ends of the teeth on said gears for imparting a reciprocatory and shaft is rotated.

4:. The combination with a pair of implebodied in one of said gears cooperating with serpentine groove on the first gear for im- The combination with apair of shafts,

rotary movement to one shaft when the other,

ment carrying shafts, of intermeshing gears f" also mounted on said shafts, and means em- Gopies of this patentmsy he obtained for five cents each,

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means on the other gear for imparting reciprocatory and rotary movement to one shaft when the other shaft is rotated.

5. The combination with a pair of shafts, of intermeshing gears connecting the shafts, obliquely disposed means carried by one of said gears cooperating with means on the other gear for imparting a serpentine movement to one shaft when the other shaft is rotated.

6. The combination with a pair of shafts, of intermeshing gears connecting the shafts, means carried by one of said gears cooperating with means on the other gear for imparting a serpentine movement to one shaft when the other shaftis rotated, and means for varying the serpentine path of the first shaft each successive revolution.

7 The combination with a pair of shafts, of intermeshing gears carried by said shafts, one of said gears having a serpentine groove in its toothed periphery, and a serpentine rib on the other gear extending ,into said serpentine groove on the fiizlt gear for imparting a serpentine movement to one shaft when the other shaft is rotated, one gear having more teeth than the other, whereby the serpentine path of the reciprocating shaft will be varied each successive revolution.

WILLIAM M. BOYLE.

In presence of- W. J. BoLL, J. W. MURPHY.

by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, 

